Religion #4: Psychic Factors of the Spirit World

C.G. Jung continued: - Just as material objects are the elements of this world, psychic factors are the objects of the “other world” (spirit world).  - Psychic activity: is nothing less than the conviction as to the concrete evidence of the spirit world.  - Spirit world: is a reality in no way inferior to that of the …

Life & Death #3: Rebirth

Tidbits from the works of, C.G. Jung: - “In my case it must have been primarily a passionate urge toward understanding which brought about my birth. For that is the strongest element in my nature. This insatiable drive toward understanding has, as it were, created a consciousness in order to know what is and what …

#2 – Life & Death: Death, Rebirth, Afterlife

“The soul, the anima/animus, establishes the relationship to the unconscious. In a certain sense this is also a relationship to the collectivity of the dead; for the unconscious corresponds to the mythic land of the dead, the land of the ancestors. If, therefore, one has a fantasy of the soul vanishing, this means that it …

Life & Death series, post 1: Life

“The meaning of my existence is that life has addressed a question to me. Or, conversely, I myself am a question which is addressed to the world, and I must communicate my answer, for otherwise I am dependent upon the world’s answer. That is a supra-personal life task, which I accomplish only by effort and …

Myths & Legends of India: When Death Speaks

Myths & Legends of India   When Death Speaks – pp. 111  Yama ~*~ A melancholy rishi called Aruni had a burning longing for spiritual wisdom and the certainty of heaven and had given away all his possessions in sacrificial offerings to the gods. But when he wanted to give away his cows too, he realized gloomily that they …